Team USA Fencing earns 4 total medals, including two gold, at Paris 2024.
The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris wrapped up with Sunday’s closing ceremony, allowing Team USA to return home from a successful trip resulting in a historic gold medal for the program’s women’s foil team, three individual medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze), and more memorable performances.
Lee Kiefer returns stateside having cemented her legacy as one of the greatest fencers in American history. She repeated as an Olympic champion, winning gold in the individual foil competition. Her opponent in the final, Lauren Scruggs, won the silver medal and became the first Black woman to win an individual fencing medal for Team USA.
Kiefer and Scruggs also helped the women’s foil team – Kiefer, Scruggs, Jackie Dubrovich, and Maia Weintraub – take team gold by defeating Italy in the final. The team became the second American women’s foil team to ever medal in the event.
On the men’s side, Nick Itkin defeated Japan’s Kazuki Iimura 15-12 to capture the bronze medal in the men’s individual foil event. Itkin became the sixth American man to earn an individual Olympic medal in foil.
Paris 2024 represented the first time that Team USA fencers won individual Olympic medals in both men’s and women’s events.
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